State v. Baca’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 34 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A New Mexico district court has statutory authority to place a convicted defendant on supervised probation. Probation is a form of criminal sanction; it is one point on a continuum of possible punishments. A court may impose reasonable conditions that deprive the offender of some freedoms enjoyed by law-abiding citizens. If the court orders probation, the court shall attach to its order suspending sentence such reasonable conditions as it may deem necessary to ensure that the defendant will observe the laws of the United States and the various states and the ordinances of any municipality. The court may require that a person on probation satisfy any other conditions reasonably related to his rehabilitation. To be reasonably related, the probation condition must be relevant to the offense for which probation was granted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 384 F. App'x 726 - Schwartz v. New Mexico Corrections Department Probation & Parole

2. “The fact that there was cooperation between the probation officer and the police did not make the search illegal, because it was requested by the probation officer. When the search is at the probation officer’s request, as it was in this case, the search was reasonable if the probation officer believes that a search is necessary to perform his duties properly. [P]roper visitation by a probation officer does not cease to be so because he is accompanied by a law enforcement official .... However, under no circumstances should cooperation between law enforcement officers and probation officers be permitted to make the probation system a subterfuge for criminal investigations.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bolin

3. “The legality of a search questioned in a suppression hearing is generally tested as a mixed question of law and fact wherein we review any factual questions under a substantial evidence standard and we review the application of law to the facts de novo.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Neal